Employer-Sponsored Wellness Programs for Hypertension and Dyslipidemia in a 2-Hospital Health System.

Background: The increasing prevalence of chronic disease states, such as hypertension and dyslipidemia, in the United States has placed a growing economic burden on the nation's healthcare system, and incentives for cost reductions have been used by various private health insurers.

Objective: To analyze the clinical outcomes of pharmacy department-managed, employer-sponsored wellness programs for dyslipidemia and hypertension in a 2-hospital health system.

Methods: Using a retrospective chart review, we evaluated outcomes of employees and their spouses who were enrolled in our dyslipidemia and hypertension Wellpath programs between November 2015 and April 2017.

Integration and compensation of pharmacists into primary care medical groups.

Objective: To demonstrate the expansion of an outpatient pharmacy program within a health system via annual wellness visits (AWVs) and disease state management patient encounters at outpatient medical groups.

Setting: A referral-based pharmacist-managed ambulatory care center, a department of a hospital, and 4 primary care medical groups of a community practice hospital health system in Savannah and Pooler, Georgia, and Bluffton, South Carolina.

Practice Description: St.